War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Susan Sontag

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Abraham Lincoln

I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life.

Rebecca Lobo

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

James Broughton

Pain was a fascinating horror

Aldous Huxley

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poetsthemselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

C.S. Lewis

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

Marco Rubio

I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.

Adam Arkin

Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

Patrick Rothfuss

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

James Madison

The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

Bobby Darin